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DESCRIPTION. 



XXXI. E. Planchoniana, F.v.M. 



Fragm. xi, 43 (November, 1878). It is described in English in the " Eucalypto- 

 graphia," where there is a figure. In my view this drawing can be improved, and so 

 I caused a drawing to be made for Part xxiv of my " Forest Flora of New South Wales." 

 That Part contains some of my notes on the species, and I have but little to add. 



The affinity of E. Planchoniana to E. virgata is unquestionable. It might even 

 be looked upon by some botanists as a very large-fruited form of that species. I do 

 not see any difference in the timbers of the two species. At the same time I do not 

 propose to suppress E. Planchoniana. As a young tree, the marked purplish cast of 

 its foliage gives it an ornamental appearance. 



Explanation of Plates (41-44). 

 PLATE 41. 



E. alpina, Lindl. 



la. Twig with buds ; 16, twig with fruits ; lc, single fruit of type specimens, viz., No. 243 of Major 

 Mitchell's Expedition, 1836, " Summit of Mount William," Grampians. Note how much smaller 

 and less tuberculate the fruits are than in most specimens attributed to E. alpina. 



2a. Flowers (past maturity) ; 26, front and back view of anther (I cannot see any difference between the 

 anthers of E. alpina and E. capitellata) ; 2c, fruits (note their tuberculate character). All from 

 the Grampians, Victoria. (C. Walter.) 



3. A single oblique leaf from the Grampians. 



4a. Buds; 46, fruits, from Mount Zero, Grampians. (St. Eloy D' Alton.) 



5a. Leaf; 56, fruit (note its large size and smoothness). Mount Abrupt, (H. B. Williamson.) 



E. microcorys, F.v.M. 



6. Juvenile leaves, still in the opposite stage. Armidale, N.S.W. (A. W. Howitt.) 



7. Broadish leaf, in the intermediate stage. Mullumbimby, N.S.W. (W. Baeuerlen.) 



8a, 86. Mature leaves; 8c, fruits. Grafton to Coffs Harbour, N.S.W. (J.H.M. and J. L. Boorman.) 



9a. Buds; 96, front, and 9c, back view of anther. Woolgoolga, N.S.W. (E. H. F. Swain.) 



[Tab. xxxiv, 3a (bis) of Vol. I of Gaertner's " De fructibus et seminibus plantarum " may be 

 E. microcorys .] 



E. umbra, R. T. Baker. 



10. Sucker leaf, one of two strictly opposite and sessile. Newport, N.S.W. (R. H. Cambage.) 



11a. Mature leaf; 116, buds; lie, fruits of type. Spit Road, Mosrnan's Bay, Sydney. (R. T. Baker.) 



12. Fruits, very small, from Peat's Ferry. (H. Deane.) From the same tree are fruits of the normal size. 



